More than 50,000 people from all over Britain and abroad arrived in Birmingham on Saturday 16th May to take part in a protest against Third World debt.
22 May 1998
Complete Text of Bishop Holloway's speech at St. Alban's, London
11 May 1998
(CT, CPSA) The new peace agreement will place new and difficult demands on the Irish people, the Anglican Primate of All Ireland, the Most Revd Dr Robin Eames, warned.
17 April 1998
Jesus told his listeners: "I am the Resurrection and the Life". The great events of that first Easter Day proved beyond doubt the meaning of what Christ had said. For the Christian that is the centre of the Easter message - a message of hope, love, triumph and certainty. Christ had risen from the dead and overcome all that the evil, darkness and hatred of this world could achieve. The resurrection turned hope into reality.
17 April 1998
Several protesters from the extremist gay rights group Outrage stormed the pulpit at Canterbury Cathedral as the Archbishop, Dr. George Carey, began his Easter sermon. The full Cathedral heard a spokesman for the activists shout at the congregation about their lesbian and gay rights for about three minutes before security people forcibly removed the aggressive protesters who literally surrounded the Archbishop in the small pulpit in the crowded nave.
12 April 1998
'Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, he is risen. Remember how he told you while he was still with you in Galilee.' Then, Luke tells us, 'they remembered his words'.
09 April 1998
(CT) Church organisations have been criticised for continuing to invest in arms companies. The Campaign Against Arms Trade has compiled a dossier of seven arms exporters and the groups that hold shares in them.
08 April 1998
(CT) Those who disagree with ordaining practising homosexuals should not oppose those who do agree with it, the Bishop of Edinburgh, the Most Revd Richard Holloway, has said.
08 April 1998
The Bishop of Worcester, the Rt Revd Peter Selby, has set out a theological path through the potentially divisive issues facing the Anglican Church today.
23 March 1998
(CT) The bishops of the Church in Wales this month lifted their ban the remarriage of divorcees in church. Clergy now have the freedom to conduct such services if their consciences allow it.
19 March 1998